When it comes to the largest Facebook groups about The Golden Compass, the numbers speak for themselves: Facebook Group Members in Group Do NOT support “The Golden Compass” 46,045 Boycott “The Golden Compass” 4,363 Boycott “The Golden Compass” and it’s athiest message 2,167 BOYCOTT THE GOLDEN COMPASS!!! 1,905 Please Boycott the movie the “Golden Compass” 1,391 1 Million Strong against “The Golden Compass” 1,251 Let’s see the other side of the issue (this is the largest group I could find):… Read more
A new study on “innovative bereavement care service at Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital” was recently conducted by Trinity College, Dublin. The results: The survey found that a third of people mourning a loved one turned to their family, with a quarter relying friends and one in five getting support from children. Lower down the list, pets ranked ahead of priests and spiritual advisers, books, films and professionals. So when things are in doubt, the priests get shafted. I wonder why that… Read more
It’s kind of like the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, and The Original Kings of Comedy tour… Except this group has some diversity. What a novel approach… A Muslim, a Hindu, a Christian, a Jew and an atheist walk into a comedy club. It’s not the beginning of a joke, but it is the start of an evening of holy – or unholy – humor. (Atheist) Keith Lowell Jensen began the group along with the… Read more
There’s always talk about what atheists don’t believe. But what do they believe? A reader named Steve has a website where he lists 17 “propositions” that he feels non-believers should follow. A few examples: 2) Do not attempt to impose belief systems on others. … 12) Do not denigrate believers. … 15) Do not search for a meaning to life. Some seems obvious. Some seem dead-on. Some need some serious rewording. At times, it sounds like he is saying that… Read more
The new Carnival of the Godless is at The Sexy Secularist. Go check it out! The next CotG is at The Jesus Myth in two weeks. Submit your entries here! … The Humanist Symposium can be found this week at The Greenbelt. Go read it! The next HS is at Evanescent in three weeks. Submit your entries here! [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
Whenever Dorid finishes her “Atheist’s Holiday coloring and activity book,” it’s going to sell like hotcakes. That picture above is a draft, but the one below is finished: Hotcakes, I tell you. [tags]atheist, atheism, squid, cephalopod[/tags] Read more
Not sure if the PostSecret submitter is gay, atheist, or something else entirely. Still, it’s sad (and scary) that someone could believe that to be true… Check out other religious PostSecret entries here. [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
It’s a side comment, but it makes so much sense… Keith Olbermann, talking about Karl Rove and the George W. Bush Presidential Library: OLBERMANN: Yes, I understand that. You know, one of the other you‘s in there is Karl Rove that story about him possibly being in charge of the presidential library, the creation museum of presidential libraries then. What does this tell us about the relationship of the truth to now not the administration of George W. Bush but… Read more
No, not that one. This one. Sunday school for atheists: An estimated 14% of Americans profess to have no religion, and among 18-to-25-year-olds, the proportion rises to 20%, according to the Institute for Humanist Studies. The lives of these young people would be much easier, adult nonbelievers say, if they learned at an early age how to respond to the God-fearing majority in the U.S. It would definitely help. So many young atheists live in fear of telling anyone, even… Read more
In Indiana last year, a law was passed that allowed the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to issue license plates that were stamped with the label “In God We Trust.” The law was passed by a vote of 134-2. Now, that label alone isn’t a problem. If people want to purchase that specialty plate, with the usual specialty plate cost of $40/year, it is entirely their right to do so. The problem here is that there is no extra fee added… Read more
